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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

James Baldwin

People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
JAMES BALDWIN

Light People Treat Trust
We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
JAMES BALDWIN

Acceptance Commit Crime Lie
If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
JAMES BALDWIN

Concept God Love Religion Time Validity
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
JAMES BALDWIN

Courage Inspirational Leave Life World
Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
JAMES BALDWIN

Believe Endure Humanity Inferior Remember
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
JAMES BALDWIN

Breakup World Change Identity Real Safety
Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
JAMES BALDWIN

Humour One Liner Reality Time Worst Youth
Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
JAMES BALDWIN

Crown Inspirational Pay Wear
The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
JAMES BALDWIN

Cease Each Other Hold Light Moments Sea
I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
JAMES BALDWIN

Goodness Honesty Man One Liner Self Love Writing
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
JAMES BALDWIN

Allow Lead Life Live Pay People
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES BALDWIN

Expensive Life Poverty Struggle
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
JAMES BALDWIN

Art Hide Purpose
Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
JAMES BALDWIN

Deakness Deep Healing Life Walk Whistle
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
JAMES BALDWIN

Hear Listen Music One Liner People
The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
JAMES BALDWIN

Art Force Reality Represent

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